• RELIGION AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS


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    • ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Religion can serve as a strong tool in fostering development in any country, but when not properly managed it can also mar same. In this case, the negative effect comes when   man fails to assert himself existentially but depends absolutely on religion to do everything for him. More often than not, he resorts to seeking for spiritual solution to most of his existential problems in various prayer houses. The consequences of such approach to issues cannot be far- fetched as it leaves the individual’s rational faculty dormant, and such individual cannot positively effect a desired change ... Continue Reading

         

      CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]CHAPTER ONE 1.1   BACKGROUND OF STUDY John Mbiti (1969) asserted that “religion is the strongest element in traditional background, and exerts probably the greatest influence upon the thinking and living of the people concerned.” [1]  Mbiti also made another observation that “religion is in  the African’s man whole system ofbeing, as such wherever he is , there also  you must see an element of his religion.[2]  Having heard from Mbiti, one cannot but see Africans as highly religious people, but I have come to see that this approach of religiosity by ... Continue Reading